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...confidence in the new board of directors. These officers will have before them a task which will require great activity and earnest work, if they undertake to correct the abuses we have already called attention to. The society appears to have been badly managed and to be sadly in need of reform. With a suitable superintendent, and a board of officers elected especially for the purpose. great improvements ought to be made in the coming year...
...which is theoretically admissible, but does not take into consideration the actual facts. Our correspondent is mistaken in writing,- "Without any agreement or any red tape we have a league de facto." Unfortunately, we have no league in any sense of the word. In the present athletic crisis we need some definite understanding with Yale assuring annual contests between the two colleges. We cannot afford to withdraw finally from the Intercollegiate Athletic association without making some provision for future contests in a New England league or with Yale. The uncertainty in regard to this branch of athletics ought to cleared...
...dual league is that it will define eligible players and make rules. Some people think Yale and Harvard too young to carry on games simply by precedent and a spirit of fair play. If thirty years of experience is not enough for them, how much do they need? I have talked with several prominent Yale men who appeared to be quite sick and tired of these incessant bickerings about games. I am sure that every man in Yale and Harvard wants to see fair play in every game. Why not trust to their sense of honor and let each organization...
...seem a small matter at best, but I see no advantage in a dual league except a trifling assurance that gentlemen ought not need nor ask for. If Yale and Harvard cannot hold games without red tape and cumbrous regulations they ought to "quit." The example of the English universities ought to put us to shame. Every feeling but a desire for good sport and fair play ought to be banished from our athletic fields. Since one conference has resulted in a majestic secret, I repeat, I believe more than half the college would favor no league but a tacit...
...practice. Jefferson's "agricultural book" showed much botanical knowledge and often curious mottoes were written on the bark of different trees. His lawns and gardens were his especial pleasure and he often said "Americans should pay especial attention to their lawns, for, as the country is new. There need be no limit to their extent." Jefferson's own lawns were beautifully situated for they extended west many acres in front of the house, and the view to the west commanded the country for one hundred miles as far as the Alleganies. It was Jefferson's idea to make himself perfectly...